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First off: What is Google Analytics and how can it help you? Google Analytics is a platform provided by Google that helps you to track and analyze data about how people interact with your site. Assuming you’re using the Universal Analytics version, it will provide insights into these categories: Audience: Who is visiting your site? Acquisition: How are they getting there? Behavior: What are they doing once on your site? Conversions: What goals are they completing on your site? These categories can be further segmented, of course. Audience insights can […]
In order to understand your marketing performance across an area as vast as the internet, one of the tools that’s here to help you out is Google Analytics’ channel groupings. What are they? Essentially, these are eight default channels that divide your traffic sources into eight different categories: organic search, paid search, display, email, referral, social, direct, and (other). Today we’re gonna look at what each of these consist of. To view these metrics, you’ll want to pop on over to the Acquisition section in the side menu of Google […]
As the old adage says, what gets measured gets improved. But in the world of SEO where everything gets measured, the number of metrics provided can feel paralyzing. You may think: What metrics matter the most to my business? How do I know if my site is performing well? How do I quantify my SEO efforts? Once I know what metrics to track, how do I apply the knowledge I gain to improve my site? Thankfully, if you have a website, you can use free digital marketing tools like Google […]
